it’s the monday giggles: (And in honor of ‘Our Lady of the Grapes’…)
novinophobia: (noun)
the fear of running out of wine.
1 grape cluster = 1 glass
75 grapes = 1 cluster
4 clusters = 1 bottle
40 cclusters = 1 vine
1 vine = 10 bottles
1200 clusters = 1 barrel
1 barrel = 60 gallons
60 gallons = 25 cases
30 vines = 1 barrel
400 vines = 1 acre
1 acre = 5 tons
Daniel Susco in his interesting article
Have Another Glass : 7 Weird Facts about Grapes & Wine outlines for us…
people have been growing grapes for 8,00 years,
Noah grew them,
the oldest grape-producing vine is in Slovenia,
the oldest known winery is from 4000 B.C.,
red wine may help prevent heart disease,
Ancient Greek wine was very strong,
*an entire bottle of wine can fit into a Starbuck’s Trenta Cup.
(*I may have made that last one up myself.)
hugs n’ blessings and may your giggles burst more than your wine skins!
“Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” Matthew 9:17
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